Sweet Briar College Magazine - Spring 2017

Class Notes
Judy can now see her feet. The one
bright week was the long-anticipated
marriage in St. Petersburg of their son
Will to Janessa Cobb. Judy had fun
meeting her family and seeing Will’s
friends from college and graduate
school. Steve’s cardiac disease has
worsened, with additional restrictions
put on his activities. He is allowed to
fly, but not to drive long distances. At
least three months were spent nursing
their dogs, Daphne and Dot, after
various complex operations for large
growths that were benign. Their late
Deme now has great-grandchildren
in the show rings in the South. Judy
continues to co-breed with a friend in
North Carolina. Judy’s mother turns
99 in February; she lives at home and
teaches watercolor painting despite a
growing dementia. Judy has increased
her involvement at church, chairing the
Stewardship campaign, helping rewrite
the constitution and bylaws, and joining
the pastoral search committee. She
continues to sit on the Foundation
Board.
Carol Remington Fogelsong
had a wonderful year of travel and
adventure in 2016, starting with
18 days around the bottom third of
South America, their son’s wedding
in New Braunfels, Texas; Provo, Utah;
a Florida beach getaway; reunion at
SBC; Memphis, Tenn.; Dubuque, Iowa,
twice; Santa Fe, N.M.; six to seven trips
to Baltimore to visit her mother (Ann
Moore Remington’44); plus another
trip to Baltimore for Thanksgiving; and
Texas for Christmas. In the first quarter
of 2017, she will retire after 25-plus
years at the Orange County Comptroller.
Carol is keeping her bags packed,
with many more plans to travel, plus
ancestry searching/documenting and
watercolor painting!
Kathy Pegues Garcia and her
husband just returned from ten days
in Vienna, Austria. Their trip coincided
with their daughter’s courier trip for the
National Gallery of Art. She is getting
closer to completing her dissertation.
Their son is deployed to Bahrain until
July. They will visit grandchildren in
South Carolina, then New York City to
see a former student sing in Carnegie
Hall!
Frances Barnes Kennamer
became a grandmother on Sept. 26,
2015. Catherine Barnes Hopson is, of
course, the most beautiful granddaughter
ever!
Kathy Wilson Lamb and Rex
are happily living in Lexington, Va.
Retirement has been great. They just
got back from a tour of the maritime
provinces of Canada. Last year, they did
a tour of the Canadian Rockies. They
love being grandparents and doing
volunteer work in their community.
Sally Uptegrove Lee retired
from teaching in 2012. Their daughter
graduated from Trinity University in San
Antonio and stayed, so they moved
to be with her and her family in San
Antonio. Sally spent a year and a half
renovating a 1920s house there. She
loves being retired and has joined the
San Antonio Assistance League and the
Trinity University Women’s Club. They
now have two grandchildren, Liesl and
William.
Mim Washabaugh Meglan
recently moved from her mountain
aerie of the past 20 years to a beautiful
neighborhood in downtown Frederick,
Md., close to friends. Mim is still playing
the organ and is now on the board
of the Frederick Children’s Chorus.
Anne Wigglesworth Munoz and
Milton celebrated their 40th anniversary
this year with trips to Mexico’s
Copper Canyon and France, AND
they will be grandparents to daughter
Maya’s and Adnan’s child in November.
Their daughter Aliria is getting married
in December, then they are off to
Portugal and Spain for Christmas and
New Year’s.
Barb Wuehrmann has moved to
Green Valley, Ariz., full time, no longer
a snowbird from Michigan. She is
From Kathy Garcia Pegues ’71: “I’m taking watercolor lessons!”
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spending summers in Frisco, Colo.,
to escape the heat. Having worked
part-time for the last 15 years, Barb is
now a fully retired family physician. She
is doing a little traveling: in 2016, she
went birding in Belize and to Andalucia,
Spain, with the Sierra Club. She met up
with Betty Rau Santandrea ’70 in Santa
Fe in March.
2016 was a great year for Bev
Van Zandt—especially the Sweet
Briar Reunion. She continues to love
living in San Miguel de Allende. Her
daughter, Roberta, and her husband,
Chris, came from New York City for
Christmas. To top it off, Mimi Fahs
arrived in January, and they had a
wonderful time catching up and playing
tourist. Now Bev is anxiously awaiting
her first grandchild, Evangeline, due in
February. Beverly and Tom will certainly
be busy since Beverly will continue
in medical school. Bev says, “Begin
your plans NOW to attend our Reunion
2021!”
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C. Jill Johnson
2012 Wolftrap Oaks Ct.
Vienna, VA 22182
cjilljohnson@verizon.net
Marion Walker has been practicing
law in Birmingham, Ala., for 40
years. She is Of Counsel with an L&E
boutique law firm. In June 2015, she
celebrated the 800th anniversary of
Magna Carta in London. Her SBC little
sister, Nan Robinson Clarke ’73, was
there! In Birmingham, she shares many
fun hours with friends shooting skeet,
playing golf, working on her house
(new since Nov. 2015) and giving
dinner parties. Life is good and will be
great at Reunion!
Betty Works Fuller continues to
enjoy her retirement in Corpus Christi,
Texas, where she serves as a supply
priest in small churches in the area.
Her mother, Lucy Robb Winston Works
’38, died Nov. 7 at the age of 100. She
was probably one of the oldest Sweet
Briar alums. In going through her
mother’s papers, she has found photos
of the graduation of the Class of 1938!
Carol Cody Herder and husband
Charlie are the proud new owners of an
Australian Terrier puppy. It’s even more
time-consuming than they remembered,
but the good news is that Carol
has no trouble completing her 10,000
steps every day. They are really enjoying
their granddaughter who is almost
1 year old. Charlie wants to retire from
commercial real estate in Houston but
says that it is too interesting to completely
retire right now. Although Carol
is busy with several volunteer groups,
she is primarily volunteering with the
DAR. They continue to love spending
four months in Colorado each summer,
as well as taking time to go skiing
during the winter and spring. They
are golfing together regularly and love
traveling with friends to play at different
golf resorts. They feel truly blessed.
They wish a joyful and healthy 2017 to
each member of the class of ’72 and
their families!
Sarah von Rosenberg continues
to live outside of Houston, Texas,
with her husband Stan Smoote. They
still work full-time in the psychology
practice, doing a significant amount of
work with law enforcement personnel.
On the weekends, they enjoy their six
acres, although the unexpected hard
freeze this year wreaked havoc on their
citrus crop! Their kids and grandkids
are spread from Texas to Ohio to North
Carolina and are, for the most part,
thriving, which is heartwarming. The
grandkids bring a great deal of joy—
they’re high energy, but are great fun
to be with. Sarah works 15 to 25 hours
a week for Sweet Briar as co-chair of
the Alumnae Alliance, although that
work is expected to increase again for
the spring admissions push. Sarah has
found it rewarding to reconnect with
classmates and near-classmates and
to connect with alumnae across the
nine decades of Sweet Briar women.
The joint determination to work together
to preserve SBC’s strong women’s
liberal arts education has forged a
bond as alums address the opportunities
and challenges for the future for
our alma mater. She has appreciated
the opportunity to serve Sweet Briar.
Martha Holland and husband
Chris Iribe have decamped to Key West
for the past two winters. They have
a very low-maintenance apartment
there: no snow to shovel, no grass
to cut, no leaves to rake. Otherwise,
they split their time between D.C. and
Virginia Beach. They went to Australia
and New Zealand in spring 2016 and
had a great time touring. Two of their
three children are married, but no
grandchildren yet. They are planning
to move from their D.C. house to a
townhouse in Alexandria, Va. Again, low
maintenance: Someone else will shovel
the sidewalk, no grass, no yard at all!
Martha enjoys lunch with Jill Johnson
and Mary Heller, as often as they are
all in D.C. at the same time.
On Jan. 15, 2017, DeDe Conley
met with seven alumnae and one
Junior Year in France student at a wonderful
Sweet Briar Day in Paris hosted
by Lorie Teeter Lichtlen ´82. All enjoyed
connecting, and DeDe gave an update
on SBC and answered questions. In
addition to DeDe and Lori, the event
drew Jennifer Campbell Koehl ’85,
Bryanna Colvin ’18—a current JYF
Paris student, Taler Echols ’12, Christine
Jaboula Hubac—French exchange
student ’86 -’87, Taylor-Kate Ryan ’10,
and Catherine Viette ’93.